In our second On the Square today, Samantha Ranieri reviews Abby Johnson’s Unplanned: The Dramatic True Story of a Former Planned Parenthood Leader’s Eye-Opening Journey across the Life Line . Comparing Johnson’s experience to her own experience as a crisis pregnancy counselor, she finds the book to be a much needed antidote to the rhetoric that so often clouds the abortion debate.
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